Self-esteem and well-being as the major indicators of resilience to stress

Pages:262-269
Anita Sharma and Deepika Bali (Department of Psychology, H.P.University, Shimla, HP)

In this study, an effort has been made to investigate the role of self-esteem and well-being on resilience to stress in the university students. The main findings were gauged through ANOVA. The findings suggest that: (i) High self-esteem and high well-being subjects have shown significantly more resilience to stress as compared to their counterparts by scoring significantly low on deficiency focusing and necessitating and high on skill recognition.(ii)With regard to gender, difference has been found to be significant only on necessitating with females showing more resilience to stress to that of males.(iii)The three factor interaction effect of self-esteem x well-being x gender has also turned out to be significant on deficiency focusing and necessitating.